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lose touch |
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lose one's touch (with someone or something) Fig. to lose one's ability to handle someone or something. I seem to have lost my touch with my children. They won't listen to me anymore. We've both lost our touch as far as managing people goes. lose your touch if you lose your touch, you can no longer do something as well as you could before (usually in continuous tenses) It's good to see their goalkeeper's not losing his touch. lose your touch to no longer be able to do something as well as you could before In her latest book, O'Reilly seems to have lost her touch for creating interesting characters. lose touch (with somebody) to no longer communicate with someone I lost touch with Katie after she moved to Canada. lose touch (with something) to no longer have recent knowledge about something He has never lost touch with Mexican culture and traditions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Bolkonski only tried not to lose touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was happening in front of him. The nephew of one of the standard Victorian novelists, Mainhall bobbed about among the various literary cliques of London and its outlying suburbs, careful to lose touch with none of them. I'm afraid I have let myself lose touch, but I mean to turn over a new leaf. |
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